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##yakutake at rabaul learned of kawaguchi's defeat, the imperial japanese army's first defeat involving a unit of this size in the war. the general forwarded the news to the imperial general headquarters in japan. in an emergency session, the top japanese army and navy command staffs concluded that, " guadalcanal might develop into the decisive battle of the war. " the results of the battle began to have a telling strategic impact on japanese operations in other areas of the pacific. hyakutake realized that, in order to send sufficient troops and materiel to defeat the allied forces on guadalc